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How Blue Jeans Became Blue
Blue jeans have an inseparable one-way word association, and what makes that so interesting is tha...
Illuminating Your Party Food
You’re planning a birthday party, something amazing for someone amazing, and you want it to be mem...
Death of a Salesman – How Proteinase K Unlocked the Secret in a Criminal Case
The traveling salesman, 45 and otherwise healthy, had been hospitalized several times already....
Behind Honey's Healing Power
For a few millennia, mankind has used honey as food and a healing agent without knowing how it worke...
7 Fun things to do in or out of the lab this summer
It’s summer time again! The temperature has hit “beautiful”, the trees and grass have turned back...
Can science and technology stop poaching for good?
It’s no secret that animal parts are a big part of the black market trade in our world. Elephants, r...
Deadly Diseases, Synthetic Biology, and IPTG
Sandra’s haunting journey with a deadly flesh-eating parasite started a few years ago while Sandra w...
How the Northern Cardinal Gets So Red
You may have seen him perched up on tree branches, showing off his bright, red, feathery chest. The...
Mangroves – The Buffering Superheroes of the Ocean
Today, the devastating effects of rising man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, more technically...